The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-25
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Suggestions for Horse and
Cattle Raisers
THE CARE OF GROWING COLTS.
To Make Good Veal-Use OF the Whip
Inferior Sheep-Heg Breeding
Other Brief Information,
CARE OF YOUNG COLTS.

Il is frequently the case that brood
mare does not give sufficient milk to
keep her foal in hearty, growing con-
dition, and in that case it will be neces-
sary to give it extra attention and pro-
| vide food for 1t. When the colt is quite
young, cows milk, mixed with one
fourth psrts bulk of waterand warmed to
about SO degrees, may be given. This
should be sweetened little at first, as
the colt will then drink it more readily.
Later, oatmeal may be soaked in the
milk, the amount of this depending on
the size of the colt and the quantity of
milk the dam gives. There is a great
difference in mares in this respect, some
of them yielding only small quantity.
AS the colt grows older, whole oats and
little bran or inseed meal may be
substituted for the cows milk, Unless
the colt is properly nourished at the
start and kept growing, it will show the
effect of the neglect by being poorly
developed, understood, and badly pro-
portioned. 1t should be borne in mind
make a material difference il their
value .when grown and .often decide
the question whether the farmer realizes
any profit from raising them.
HOW TO MAKE GOOD VEAL. Il
To raise calves for veal writer saws
to take your calf off the COW at three
days old; have a muzzle made for it
similar to the one they sometimes have
for dogs. Keep it IN clean, dry, airy,
but darkened room, and feed it moth
ing but pure and skinned milk, warm
as If fresh from the COW, two or three
times day; give it all it can take and
it will get fat in six or eight weeks. The
muzzle is for tie purpose of preventing
it from taking straw, hay and other
foreign substances. The darkened room
is a great factor in this fattening pro-
cess, as it keeps the calf quiet and in
greatly hastens the fattening process.
This method is, Ntcourse, only for rails
ing calves for veal. If the object is to
make mixers of the calves, they need
the exercise and slow growth of slower
methods. Good veal is too much a rare
object in the market, and calves pro-
perly fattened should bring enough |
more than ordinary calves to pay well !
for the extra trouble, if it can be called |
trouble. TO keep them quiet in a dark
room.
IT certainly will not be profitable to |
keep the inferior sheep through next |
winter. If the classification is made |
now, the rejected class can be made |
ready for market, on grass; which |
makes the cheapest flesh. Many farmers
will find the most profitable market for |
these culls on their own farms. Truly |
there is prejudice among consumers |
against aged ewes. But this is chiefly |
owing to the fact that such are often |
put upon the market in poor condition. |
A lean sheep does not make good NUT. |
ton, whatever its age. It Is not claimed |
that fattening an old eve will make her
yield the best mutton; but it may be
made good and palatable. When the
ewes are culled out every year. there
will soon be no very old ones. This is
not the season for the consumption of |
salt pork; and, all things considered,
mutton will be good thing for the
farmers laTder.
IT has been the common idea for
years, alas too common, that the whip
is a powerful agent for getting work
out of horse. 1t would be taking too
high ground to say that it should never
be used; but surely its use should not
be attempted by the horsemau who is
himself out of temper. A man who
cannot control himself is certainly IN
fit to control horse. If the whip is
used when the driver is ID fury, it is
sure to be laid on indiscreetly and with.
out restraint, hence the object aimed at
is frustrated, as the horse becomes
either unduly excited or obstinate.
Kind usage will get much more work
out of both men and horses in the long
run. Att
To punish horse for shying intro
Guces new cause of fear. The horse
will be more alarmed and show more
tokens of fear at the prospect of q whip
ping than at the imaginary object of
danger in the road. Hence one bad
habit is confirmed by the introduction
of another, 9 1t is impossible to whip
terror out of horse or pound courage t
into one. Kindness and gentle persua-
sion are the best weapons to correct
the pernlcious habit of shying. The
less fear exhibited by the driver, and
the less notice taken of the shying by
using harsh means. the sooner it will De
Nv %E
PERSONS uuaccus toned to horses will
more frequently pronounce the wrong
limb than the right in case of slight
lameness. The cause of their plumbers
may be the easily explained. They
perceive that horse drops the moment
one foot comes to the ground, and they
conclude that that must be
the lame one, tancying that he drops
from the pain received when it meets
the ground; whereas the fact is, he
treads as lightly as he can on the lame
foot, and bears his whole weight on the
others.
PERSONS keeping ordinary sows would
fndit greatly to their advantage Cf they
did not care to sell out and get well bred
ones) to buy a good Berkshire boar
from any welI-known breeder; the re-
suit would be certain to be highly salts
factory to them in their Itters, and
they would very soon come to the con-
clusion that good pigs, as we'll as good
stock of any other kind, are much more